by
Jennifer Widom
on Feb 24, 2012 | Categories:
Online Education
Typically I teach around 100 students per year in my introductory database course. This past fall my enrollment was a whopping 60,000. Admittedly, only 25,000 of them chose to submit assignments, and a mere 6500 achieved a strong final score. But even with 6500 students, I more than quadrupled the…
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by
Georgia Koutrika
on Feb 10, 2012 | Categories:
Uncategorized
In the era of blogs and social networks, ACM SIGMOD gets social! The ACM SIGMOD Blog is the official blog site for ACM SIGMOD. This blog aims at catching the heartbeat of our community on exciting and controversial topics that are of interest to the community, and facilitate intelligent discussions…
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